ABSTRACT
State, Territory and Federal legislatures have enacted extensive legislation that provides for dispute resolution schemes of varying complexity. The following discussion will seek to examine the various court and tribunalannexed schemes operating federally and in each State and Territory within the Commonwealth of Australia. It is beyond the scope of this text to detail every aspect of each scheme; rather, this chapter seeks to give an outline of the essential attributes of some of the schemes and the more important statutory requirements of each scheme. This chapter does not seek to discuss legislation promoting and regulating arbitration, as this has been dealt with in the previous chapter. Table 1 at the end of this chapter provides a comparative table of the provisions in the key Federal, State and Territory court and tribunal-annexed schemes.
